This white paper discusses common best practices for tuning IBM Power IBM i and AIX workloads for Skytap on Azure (SOA). One of the biggest challenges organizations have when migrating and running Power workloads in SOA is tuning the TCP/IP stack for both the local (within a SOA) environment and externally either between on-premises and SOA, or between SOA deployments in different SOA regions. This article makes several references to general Azure tuning techniques as well as those from IBM for AIX and IBM i.

Read this guide for step-by-step instructions on how to backup and restore Mksysb in Skytap on Azure.

Azure NetApp Files (ANF) solves numerous challenges and can be a go-to solution for Skytap customers who are looking to have a shared files solution on Skytap.

Skytap on Azure is a public cloud offering for IBM Power workloads – AIX, IBM i (AS/400) and Power Linux – to run in a hyperscale environment, alongside more traditional x86 Windows / Linux operating systems.

If your company relies on mission-critical applications that run on AIX, IBM i, or Linux on IBM Power Systems in the data center, you may only consider moving these traditional workloads into the cloud when faced with a compelling event.

Migrating IBM Power workloads to Skytap on Azure unlocks the next level of cloud possibility. Uncover data insights by connecting your data to Azure Synapse Analytics.

Skytap simplifies the migration of existing systems to the cloud by eliminating the initial need to rearchitect or re-platform. The concepts outlined in this document create a quick and safer path to cloud innovation, while simultaneously reducing the reliance on existing on-prem resources.

The purpose of this white paper is to offer those evaluating Skytap on IBM Cloud an overview of the security controls, accreditation, and task obligations across parties — Skytap, IBM, and the customer.

The purpose of this white paper is to offer those evaluating Skytap on Azure an overview of the security controls, accreditation, and task obligations across parties — Skytap, Microsoft, and the customer.

Cloud migration for your Power-based applications and workloads is not only possible, but can be done without refactoring, rearchitecting, or rewriting, allowing you to modernize applications while retaining the value of your Power Systems investments.

The sections of this document provide an overview of Skytap’s Power/AIX VM environment for Oracle, education on the principles of Oracle licensing, and how those principles are applied to workloads running on Power/AIX VMs in Skytap.

This paper outlines how Skytap can help streamline the process of creating and managing cloud-based Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT) labs.